[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR300.605]

[Page 133]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 300_EMPLOYMENT (GENERAL)--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart F_Time-In-Grade Restrictions
 
Sec. 300.605  Creditable service.

    (a) All service at the required or higher grade (or equivalent) in 
positions to which appointed in the Federal civilian service is 
creditable towards the time periods required by Sec. 300.604 of this 
part, except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section. Creditable 
service includes competitive and excepted service in positions under the 
General Schedule and other pay systems, including employment with a 
nonappropriated fund instrumentality. Service while on detail is 
credited at the grade of the employee's position of record, not the 
grade of the position to which detailed. Also creditable is service with 
the District of Columbia Government prior to January 1, 1980 (or prior 
to September 26, 1980, for those District employees who were converted 
to the District personnel system on January 1, 1980).
    (b) Service in positions not subject to the General Schedule (GS) is 
credited at the equivalent GS grade by comparing the candidate's rate of 
basic pay with the representative rate (as defined in Sec. 351.203 of 
this chapter) of the GS position in effect when the non-GS service was 
performed. The equivalent GS grade is the GS grade with a representative 
rate that equals the candidate's rate of basic pay. When the candidate's 
rate of basic pay falls between the representative rates of two GS 
grades, the non-GS service is credited at the higher grade.
    (c) In applying the restrictions in Sec. 300.604 of this part, 
prior service under temporary appointment at a level above that of a 
subsequent nontemporary competitive appointment is credited as if the 
service had been performed at the level of the nontemporary appointment. 
This provision applies until the employee has served in pay status for 
52 weeks under nontemporary competitive appointment; thereafter, the 
service is credited at its actual grade level (or equivalent).